The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is one of the few fifth-generation military aircraft currently in operation. Compared with all the others still flying in the world, it’s a true junior, having ...

FARNBOROUGH—With ongoing ground tests of the General Electric XA100 adaptive cycle combat engine set to end soon, the engine-maker is studying how the advanced propulsion system—proposed for the ...

GE Aviation’s (NYSE: GE) XA100 adaptive cycle engine is ready to progress from prototype into development following testing with the U.S. Air Force, according to the manufacturer. The XA100, along ...

GE Aviation said its XA100 adaptive engine, part of the Adaptive Engine Transition Program, has finished testing at Arnold Air Force Base and is ready to move to the engineering and manufacturing ...

GE Aviation concluded the first testing phase on its second XA100 adaptive cycle engine as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP). The tests took place at GE’s Evendale ...

TULLAHOMA, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Air Force and GE on March 25 th initiated Phase 2 testing of GE’s second XA100 adaptive cycle engine at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development ...

The Air Force has chosen five companies to develop prototypes of a next-generation fighter jet engine, and General Electric is among them. GE Co. has been awarded an ...

Artist's rendering of airflow over GE's XA100 adaptive cycle engine that the company is developing for the US Air Force's Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP). The company developed a pair of ...

General Electric and the U.S. Air Force have begun ground tests of the XA100 adaptive cycle combat engine at the service’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) in Tennessee. Developed by GE’s ...

The XA100 is the world’s first flight-weight, three-stream, adaptive cycle engine to run, and could power F-35s by the end of the 2020s. The F-35A will likely get a new adaptive cycle engine by the ...

The US Air Force (USAF) supports upgrading the propulsion system on its existing Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighters, rather than purchasing an entirely new adaptive engine for the jets. The ...